Latest Contributions by NateArnold

Yes, please incorporate left arrow collapse behavior into Pro's Catalog pane.  I use it all the time in other programs with a tree-structure.  Its absence is truly awkward every time I manage data in Pro.  ... View more

I was just running through the process described by Gordon and ran into an issue.  The solution is simple, but I wanted to post here for posterity We're using AGS 10.3.1, and caches created at 10.3+ use V2 of the compact cache storage format, described here.  When I proceeded with the last step of copying the generated cache, I was simply copying all of the LOD folders inside the _alllayers folder.  This resulted in the map service not returning any tiles, and http traffic showed all requests were pending, waiting for available socket. The solution is to make sure the conf.xml folder at the cache's root director has the 'V2' removed from its storage format element: <CacheStorageInfo xsi:type='typens:CacheStorageInfo'>   <StorageFormat>esriMapCacheStorageModeCompactV2</StorageFormat>   <PacketSize>128</PacketSize> </CacheStorageInfo> It should be esriMapCacheStorageModeCompact for this to work. ... View more

Hi Sallie: When working with a parcel, you can see if it has line strings by the contents of the Parcel Details window (Lines tab), but that only works on one parcel at a time.  I'd like a way to query which parcels in a fabric contain line strings in bulk rather than one at a time.  ... View more

Amir, Do you know of a GP tool that will operate on polygons and simplify only their straight (non-curve) courses?  We've looked at the curves & lines add in, but we have intentional overlapping polygons in our existing data and don't want to clean them up after generating polygons from lines and points.  Having the option to merge courses during data loading would be of great help in this situation. ... View more

Got it - thanks! Is there a similar option when loading parcels using arcpy.LoadTopologyToParcelFabric_fabric? ... View more

Amir, I can't find any additional information on this.  Would you please explain where to find this option? [Edit: I'm using 10.3.1] ... View more

Hannah, I've been through the articles on how to create an AGS service for ArcPad.  They suggest using exploded format, but don't specify an image storage type.  The default is MIXED, which will create both PNG (blank or partially so) tiles and JPEG (content tiles).  I added the service to ArcPad to make sure the NMF and L00-L03 folders were created, then took the map service offline.  I then copied all the tiles from the map service's cache folder into the NMF file's cache location.  The cache does indeed work offline, but it looks like it's turning everything into PNG files with world files and a projection xml.  In this screenshot, the JPG files are what was copied from the AGS service's cache directory, and the PNG, PGW, and xml files were created by ArcPad when viewing the layer: Is this the way it's supposed to function, or is there some ArcPad setting I need to change?  If it's the intended behavior, this will more than double the cache's size when using it. ... View more

I can't see ArcGIS Pro replacing ArcCatalog ever so long as you need to save a project when first opening Pro.  Who wants to do that just to run some GP tools and manage data?? ... View more

Chet, From my perspective, situations where a view needs to be registered with the gdb are: When you need to maintain metadata on the view When performance is critical  (credit Trevor Hart‌) When you don't want to explain to users why they're being prompted for unique ID and spatial extent Which is every time, really ... View more

Chet Dobbins‌ Vince Angelo‌ John Baleja‌ It's interesting the lengths people are going to in order to try to replace gdb registered spatial views.  Isn't it clear by now that this is functionality that's relied upon in your product?  As David Gifford‌ said (hoping you'd come to the rescue at the 11th hour ), please tell us you're planning spatial view improvements at 10.3.1.  If not, what more can this community do to tell you it's a priority for us? ... View more

A bit late, but I don't believe AlterField_management supports views - the input parameter is a Table View.  The input parameter for MakeTableView_management (which would go into AlterField_management) is a table or feature class - view is not specified.  Did you contact Support with this issue?  I'd be curious to hear if they had a workaround - it seems reasonable that since the alias of a field in a registered spatial view can be altered in ArcCatalog GUI, then it ought to be possible with GP (if not then it should be!). ... View more